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I work at an OEM in a capacity in which I get to see all of our autonomous technology coming down the pipeline. It's much closer than a lot of people think.

Yes, in the short term you'll see deployment in areas where the robots don't need to deal with snow or other difficult weather conditions, but the technology is getting better all the time. They'll be everywhere before too long.

There is some good advice above (esp. the bit about putting the baby blanket in the dog's crate), but every dog is going to be different. What works with one dog may not work for others.

If you can afford it, I highly recommend having a dog trainer do a consultation. We did this the last time we adopted a dog, and it was SO helpful. (It's not quite the same as your situation, since we were introducing a new dog into our existing household of two kids and one dog.) She came over before we brought the new dog home, met our kids and our current dog, suggested some exercises we could do with the current dog to make sure the introduction would go well, and gameplanned how to actually introduce them. She also came over again shortly after we brought the second dog home to work with the two dogs together. With her help, everything went smooth as butter.

If you're in the Ann Arbor area, Hannah Ashmore (http://www.longsnouts.com/) is fantastic and reasonably priced. If not, perhaps other folks in your area can make recommendations.

I've never tried medical marijuana as a treatment, so I can't comment on its effectiveness. But if your wife is looking for treatment options aside from pharma, I highly recommend meditation. I took a vipassana meditation class a few years ago, and it's developed into a regular practice. I've had some breakthroughs while sitting in meditation that have totally changed how I relate to my thoughts and emotions. It got me out of some really self-destructive cycles.

Per Quantcast, mgoblog had about 400k unique visitors last month, with over 7 million total page views. (I personally accounted for a sizeable fraction of that.)

UMHoops has a much lower volume. Over the last month--which has to be peak season for a basketball blog--they've got about 120k uniques and less than 600k views. A typical month looks to be more like 40k uniques and around 200k page views. It's a lot harder to make a living on advertising revenue with those numbers.

The other services may have a larger user base (Spotify) or play nice with the Apple ecosystem (Apple Music), but for pure music streaming I enjoy Google Play Music. Their radio stations have, to my taste, the best music selection.

We've had a couple of Chevy Traverses and really liked them. The third row has enough room to be a realistic option when you have extra folks, or you can fold the seats down for extra storage during the rest of the time.

The Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia are the same platform, and drive essentially the same. You just get slightly different bells and whistles depending on which model and trim package you go with. I test-drove both before buying my wife's (2016) Traverse, and liked them equally well. In our case, we got the best bang for our buck by getting a mid-level Traverse, but that could vary depending on which features you're looking for.

There's not much to do in South Bend aside from visiting ND, whereas Evanston alone is Ann Arbor-sized. When you add in the fact that you've got all of the resources of Chicago just down the road, it's a no-brainer.

I went to Northwestern Law, though the law campus is downtown so I hardly spent any time in Evanston. The few times I was up there, campus seemed really nice - the setting on the lake is fantastic. I would suggest staying in Evanston if possible, since you'll really want to get a feel for the area around campus. When you want to go downtown, just hop on the purple line - it's easier than dealing with parking downtown, anyway.

(Though if you anticipate that the purpose of this trip will be more for fun than for campus visits, the inverse is true as well - it's easy enough to stay in Chicago and take the purple line up to Evanston and back.)

I'm pretty sure that there was no way to comment for the first couple of years.

The comment section in its current incarnation is about 8 years old. Prior to that (back in the blogspot days), the site used a system called Haloscan, which was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. But if I remember right, even Haloscan was implemented well after the founding of the blog.

I would suggest looking on Craigslist, Padmapper, or other similar sites for a rental home on the northwest side of Ann Arbor, in the Maple/Miller area. It is relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of Ann Arbor, but still within bike ride distance of campus. When we moved back to Ann Arbor in 2012, we were able to rent a 3-BR home there, within walking distance of Haisley elementary, for not much more than a 2-BR apartment near campus. Housing values have gone up a bit since then, but it's still a good bang-for-your-buck.

When a user hails a car through Lyft, the user tells you a) where they are, and b) where they're going. Lyft/GM can make sure that they only send out the autonomous vehicles when the route between the start and finish points is well-mapped and navigable by our new robot overlords.

As techological capabilities and mapping data improve, they can gradually increase the variety of routes to which they send out the autonomous vehicles.